A list of major graduate student fellowships and postdoctoral fellowships appears below. The majority of these fellowships are designed for those studying in a particular discipline, although some are open to students across disciplines. Also note that many of the graduate student fellowships are restricted to particular stages of graduate school, such as predoctoral coursework, dissertation research, dissertation writing, etc.
- American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Grant-in-Aid
- American Association of University Women (AAUW) Career Development Grants
- American Association of University Women (AAUW) Dissertation Fellowship
- American Association of University Women (AAUW) International Fellowship
- American Association of University Women (AAUW) Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship
- American Association of University Women (AAUW) Research Publication Grant in Engineering, Medicine, and Science
- American Musicological Society (AMS) Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship
- American Psychological Association (APA) Predoctoral Fellowship in Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services
- American Psychological Association (APA) Postdoctoral Fellowship in Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services
- American Philosophical Society (APS) Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research
- American Philosophical Society (APS) Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research in Astrobiology
- American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Trent R. Dames and William W. Moore Fellowship
- American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Freeman Fellowship
- American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Jack E. Leisch Memorial National Graduate Fellowship
- American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) J. Waldo Smith Hydraulic Fellowship
- American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Arthur S. Tuttle Scholarship
- American Water Works Association (AWWA) Abel Wolman Fellowship
- American Water Works Association (AWWA) Graduate Scholarships (numerous)
- Argonne National Laboratory Graduate Programs
- Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
- Dan David Prize Scholarship
- Department of Defense (DOD) National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG)
- Department of Defense (DOD) SMART Fellowship
- Department of Energy (DOE) Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
- Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Fellowship (SCGF) Program
- Deutscher Akadmisscher Austausch Dienst (DAAD) German Academic Exchange Service Programs (numerous)
- ExxonMobil Latinos On Fast Track (LOFT) Fellowship Program
- Facebook Graduate Fellowship Program
- Fannie & John Hertz Foundation — Five-year Graduate Fellowship
- Fermilab Graduate Student Research in Theoretical Physics Program
- Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship
- Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
- Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship
- Graduate Fellowships for STEM Diversity
- Graham Foundation Carter Manny Award for Dissertation Research
- Graham Foundation Carter Manny Award for Dissertation Writing
- Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
- IBM Master's Fellowship Award
- IBM PhD Fellowship Award
- James S. McDonnell Foundation
- Korean American Scholarship Foundation Fellowship
- L’Oreal USA for Women in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Graduate Research Assistant Program
- Margaret McNamara Memorial Fund
- Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Dissertation Completion Fellowships
- Microsoft PhD Fellowship Program
- National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship Program
- National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST)
- National GEM Consortium Fellowship
- National Institute of Health (NIH) F31 Predoctoral Fellowship
- National Institute of Health (NIH) F31 Predoctoral Fellowship to Promote Diversity in Health-related Research
- National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Graduate Research Fellowship
- National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientist and Technical Professionals Scholarship
- National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program
- Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future Fellowship
- Social Science Research Council (SSRC) International Dissertation Research Fellowship
- Soros Fellowship for New Americans